This dissertation examines the dismantling of socialism and the resulting conflict in Yugoslavia from a gender perspective. It explores the experiences of women in the process of the violent nation-state building in the region, and how their lives and status were affected. The r…
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This study investigated the effects of patriarchy and militarization on women's educational attainment in Pakistan, where the literacy rate is among the lowest in the world, roughly two-thirds of all women cannot read or write, and even modest goals of girls' primary school enro…
This dissertation examines the militarizing processes at work in the lives of middle class, white, Protestant American women living in a midwestern exurban town during the years 2003-2006. My investigation relies on feminist theories of militarization, maternalism, nationalism, …
Child soldiering practices in Lebanon remain unreported to the concerned governmental authorities despite their existence throughout the years of war and their persistence to this day. Thus far, no research has been conducted to explore the awareness and attitudes of individuals…
Over the better part of the last decade, urban control and policing techniques in the United States have become increasingly militarized. This paper contends that such events are best understood as being situated within the emergence of a resurgent "military urbanism" -- a broad…
This dissertation is an examination of the ways in which colonial ontologies continue to structure forms of self-understanding in the postcolonial world, with specific reference to contemporary Fijian military service in the British Army. Based on seventeen months of ethnographi…
A growing body of scholarship critically examines the importance of sexuality to both the historical Cold War and the contemporary War on Terror, but fewer scholars have paid attention to the decade in between these two era-defining conflicts. Focusing on news coverage in The Ne…
Militarization as a process has influenced various refugee groups throughout the 20th and 21st century as refugees see little future for themselves. The militarizing process revolves around three factors that influence refugees to differing degrees around the globe. The factor o…
This work is about Christian peacebuilding in Burma in relation to the ongoing militarization in that country. It proposes a public practical theology of peacebuilding for Burma. Militarization has victimized many people there. Burma needs peace. Christians can contribute to the…
The topic of this thesis is the imperial relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America. Specifically, the means and methods through which the United States has been able to establish and maintain an informal empire of control throughout Latin America. Th…
This dissertation examines US militarized border security history through a multi-layered study of the US, Mexico, and Guatemala Congresses after 1986. By examining this historically and currently important case, I illuminate the drivers of border security policy on the US-Mexic…
In this dissertation, I trace the changes in the US military’s health engagement practices in Africa from the beginning of the Cold War through to the current global war on terror. My project reveals trends in the overlaps between military and humanitarian networks and highlight…